Pocket-book



Patented Dec. 27, I898.

Nu. 6l6,492.

A. REZNICEK.

POCKET BOOK.

(Application filed Sept. 19, 1898.)

(No Model.)

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UNrrE STATES ATENT price.

ANTON BEZNIOEK, OF JERSEY CITY, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF, AND MAX MEYENBERG AND SOPHIE ERDMANN, OF HOBOKEN, NEIV JERSEY.

POCKET-BOOK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 616,492, dated December 27, 1898.

Application filed September 19, 1898- berial No. 691,302. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that LANTON REZNICEK, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of J ersey City, Hudson county, New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pocket-Books, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pocket-book, purse, chatelaine bag, or similar article of to novel construction, and more particularly to.

the means for connecting the lower edges of the covers or partitions with one another.

Briefly stated, my invention consists in pro viding the pocket-book with a slotted tubular clamp-bar which embraces the lower edges of the partitions or covers to form a rigid bottom or hinge joint. Thus by my invention the manufacture of the pocket-book is simplified, while its strength is greatly increased.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a transverse section of a pocket-book provided with my improvement on line 1 1,-Fig. 4; Fig. 2, a perspective View of the clamp-bar c; Fig. 3, an end View of the pocket-book, showing it closed; Fig. 4, a section on line 4 4,

Fig. 3; and Fig. 5, an end view of the pocketbook body without the frame and clamp-bar. The body of the pocket-book is provided with the usual partitions a ct a a &c., to form the intervening compartments or pockets. In the combination pocket-book illustrated in the drawings an additional closingflap b is attached to one of the outer partitions, while with the ordinary or plain pocket- 5 book such flap is dispensed with, the two outermost partitions a themselves forming the covers.

a c are the jaws of the U-shaped frame, which engage the top and side edges of the covers a a such jaws being of a height equal to that of the book, so that they extend to the bottom of the same, Fig. 3.

The lower free edges of the partitions and covers a a, &c., projecting below the gusset-s d, Fig. 5,are engaged by a rigid tubular clampbar c, Fig. 2, preferably made of metal, which is provided with alongitudinal slot 0, through which all of such edges enter into the hollow of the bar.

After the tubular bar has been slid into place it is laterally compressed to decrease the size of its slot and to thus securely confine and connect the lower edges of the partitions. In this way a solid bottom for the pocketbook is formed, which not only increases its strength but provides simple means for connecting its partitions into a common hingejoint.

The tubular bar cshould be so placed that it is centered substantially around the framepivots c, Fig. 4, so that its ends are inclosed and concealed by the shanks of the frame and that it does not bulge below the body of the pocket-book.

If desired, the outer covers a a may be pro vided with bellows f, Fig. 5, to increase the capacity of the compartments, when manifestly the flanges f of such bellows and not the covers themselves, will be engaged by the frame a and the clamp-bar e.

lVhat I claim is- 1. A pocket-book or similar article having a frame, and a-lower clamp-bar arranged be tween the shanks of the frame and embracing the lower edges of the pocket-hook, substantially as specified.

2. A pocket-book or similar article having partitions with lower free edges, a tubular clamp-bar embracing and connecting such free edges, and a frame embracing the clampbar, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York, N. Y., this 15th day of September, 1898.

ANTON REZNICEK.

Witnesses:

MAX MEYENBERG, XVILLIAM SOHULZ. 

